The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

We decided to hold today's session at the old pavilion, the second home of Play as Being. The topic was from the first part of my blog today:

1.Looking Outward:
“As human beings, we are all participants in the same play, we are all active together” – Tarthang Tulku
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but One Mind, beside which nothing exists.” -Huángbò Xīyùn

Adams Rubble: Good Morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: Do you feel like going to old pavilion?
Riddle Sideways: oh right you did mention that
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: OK :)

[TELEPORT to Rieul]

Adams Rubble: our postures are very rigid here
Riddle Sideways: ha, somebody knows how to speel Seiza ㋡
Riddle Sideways: in the cushions
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: Pema's house used to be behind us
Riddle Sideways: hmm, did not know that
Adams Rubble: yes behind the pillar
Riddle Sideways: knew the little cabin when we moved to the big region
Adams Rubble: people used to constantly fall in the stream trying to enter the pavilion :)
Adams Rubble: would hear a splash
Riddle Sideways: yes, remember that well

I jumped right into the topic I was eager to discuss

Adams Rubble: the first part of my blog might form a good topic
Riddle Sideways: the newest one? Looking outward?
Adams Rubble: yes, looking outward
Riddle Sideways: Only 3 quotes.
Riddle Sideways: Could have been a hundred ㋡
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: Many many Sci-fi stories-quotes of hiveminds, superminds, community minds and brains behind the curtains
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: The idea of of all being part of one mind struck me last night
Adams Rubble: our thinking is so similar
Riddle Sideways: has struck many over history
Riddle Sideways: and brought forth many therories
Adams Rubble: I was thinking that it can draw us away from being so preoccupied with what is going on in our own mind
Riddle Sideways: liked the Radio station therories.  Of a great giant radio channels broadcasting around the globe of everybodies thoughts
Riddle Sideways: drawn off to preoccupied with what is going on in the Great Mind ? :))
Adams Rubble: hehe, yes
Adams Rubble: well no :)
Riddle Sideways: or the security and comfort of Being cared for by the Other mind
Adams Rubble: thinking of empathy for all the people fighting off their monkey minds and their devils
Adams Rubble: many worrying what others thinking of them
Adams Rubble: trying to find peace
Adams Rubble: ohhhhh
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: just thought of the Bodhisattvas dedicating their existence to helping others to enlightenment
Adams Rubble: first step is to recognize their suffering I guess
Adams Rubble: next step is to get enlightened :)))
Riddle Sideways: that is better than the thinking of Congress trying to get relief to all the poor citizens and children
Riddle Sideways: ha, read that as next Stop
Adams Rubble: politics is the art of suffering on a large scale
Riddle Sideways: get on the train
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: all aboard for the enlightenment train
Riddle Sideways: --Beel--
Riddle Sideways: Sir, how much is the ticket to Enlightment?

Riddle noticed a pattern in my thinking  I had missed

Riddle Sideways: Seeing now your logical extension from last weeks thoughts
Riddle Sideways: of the atoms, cells, parts of body
Riddle Sideways: being independent, but part of the Whole
Riddle Sideways: the independent foot doing its part in walking
Riddle Sideways: while the larger thinks of where to walk
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I did not realize there was any continuity :)
Adams Rubble: you are very generous :)
Riddle Sideways: to this now larger thoughts of all humanity and All uniting to do their part
Riddle Sideways: to walk forward
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: some other Big mind can decide which direction Forward is
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: yet in the Swarm we are cells of the larger brain

I cause a distraction

Adams Rubble: that reminds me of Homer Simpson
Adams Rubble: talking to Bart
Riddle Sideways: HA! yes
Adams Rubble: Let's go watch TV
Adams Rubble: Bart: What is on?
Adams Rubble: Homer: It doesn't matter
Riddle Sideways: "Duh! I said that out loud, didn't I"
Adams Rubble: I wasn't making light of your thought but making a connection to the group mind
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: There are many other Social Media groups besides FB, Redit, Twit.
Riddle Sideways: One that seems to send constant emails Quora Digest, seems to always have a variant on the theme
Riddle Sideways: 'Are we Living in a Simulation?'
Adams Rubble: ouch
Adams Rubble: that is the theology of predestination
Riddle Sideways: or a world outside of this one that is controlling ours
Riddle Sideways: or watching
Riddle Sideways: or set us in motion
Riddle Sideways: The Matrix
Adams Rubble: I don't think that gets us where we need to go
Riddle Sideways: nope.  your right
Riddle Sideways: in fact it stalls us
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: "Why Bother"
Adams Rubble: devil strikes again
Adams Rubble: dang evil
Adams Rubble: dang devil
Adams Rubble: hmmm. did not realize that evil is devil without the "d"
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ hmmm. had never either
Riddle Sideways: late, but --Bell--
Adams Rubble: thank you for keeping time
Riddle Sideways: had forgotten to start the Gong app

We start to reminisce but continue to weaving in and out of the stop

Riddle Sideways: did the old cushion have typing AOs?
Riddle Sideways: for today, kinda like it
Riddle Sideways: maybe not always
Adams Rubble: no, some people turned off the typing gesture
Riddle Sideways: does show that the typist is there and starting to rezpond
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: seems to be in the cushion
Riddle Sideways: one good thing is that (Moon's ?) noise maker thing is gone
Adams Rubble: ha ha, yes
Adams Rubble: I had donated chimes and they are gone too
Adams Rubble: signed them over to Dakini
Riddle Sideways: so much in SL changes if one is not around to keep it the same
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: and yet here we are :)
Riddle Sideways: at the Same Ol place
Adams Rubble: the old same place
Riddle Sideways: "oh, you mean the old same place"
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: Nobody expects the Firesign Theater
Adams Rubble: they should when we get together
Riddle Sideways: oh right,  it happens all the time
Adams Rubble giggles
Adams Rubble: well we've covered the Simpsons and Firesign Theater-what is next
Riddle Sideways: so the Big Body experiments
Riddle Sideways: the Big Body would have the Big Brain?
Adams Rubble: oooooooh
Riddle Sideways: it always seems to be life-less
Riddle Sideways: a Big maniquin to play with
Adams Rubble thinks of all the cartoons with the giants who seemed not to have big brains
Riddle Sideways: hmm, funny that they always did that.  the brain shrunk as the body grew
Riddle Sideways: --Beel--
Adams Rubble apologizes for not waiting to see where you were going with the big brain
Riddle Sideways: nope
Riddle Sideways: TSK never really cover Big Brain
Riddle Sideways: it went to Great Knowledge
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: back to where we started :)
Riddle Sideways: what happened to Great Wisdom
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: is there the Wisdon that contains all Wisdoms
Riddle Sideways: out there ready and waiting to be drawn upon
Riddle Sideways: happy thought
Riddle Sideways: the Cardinal Set of all wisdoms

Already in Us

Adams Rubble: if there is a Great Wisdom to be found it is already in us
Adams Rubble: doncha think?
Riddle Sideways: yeppers
Riddle Sideways: almost a forehead slap  (forget that term)
Adams Rubble: dolt!!!
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: So much to learn
Riddle Sideways: from the great Home Simpson
Riddle Sideways: Buddah, Ox
Riddle Sideways: Oz
Riddle Sideways: wait.  they had several of those episodes
Riddle Sideways: one where Homer slips into a 3D universe
Riddle Sideways: one where there are a million Homers
Riddle Sideways: one where Homer's voice is controlled by somebody behind, who is controled by somebody, who is contr...
Riddle Sideways: Really, have not watched that many Simpson's
Riddle Sideways: Really !
Riddle Sideways: Several years back, there was a marathon of like all 10years shown in order on some channel
Riddle Sideways: did watch too much of that
Adams Rubble: it's easy to get caught up in stuff
Adams Rubble: btw, I watched the first episode of the Black Chruch you recommended last night
Riddle Sideways: oh yes
Riddle Sideways: did you like?
Adams Rubble: I had not known about the Muslim settlements on the Georgia Coast
Adams Rubble: and did not realize the first Great Awakening was in the 1700s
Adams Rubble: tow things I learned
Adams Rubble: ohh and John Legend got his start in the Pent3ecoastal church
Riddle Sideways: good to learn something from watching TV
Riddle Sideways: Homer and Bart sitting on the couch learning from TV
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: (can't spell that noise Bart laughs)
Riddle Sideways: couple weeks ago saw a vid of a young Wittney Houston singing with her mother and father in their church
Adams Rubble: hmmm
Riddle Sideways: the episode where Bart switches the sheet music in church to "the Garden of Eden" by I Ron ...
Riddle Sideways: Butterfly  (forgot for a sec)
Riddle Sideways: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
Adams Rubble: the odd part is the organist plays it
Riddle Sideways: plays it all the way through
Riddle Sideways: and almost dies
Adams Rubble: I don;'t remember the almost dying
Riddle Sideways: all the pranks Bart pulls
Riddle Sideways: starts to think of all the pranks the Great Joker in the sky is pulling
Riddle Sideways: really had to laugh at the Prank of making us all elect the Donald
Adams Rubble: I mised that one
Riddle Sideways: oh, did you think that we did that by real
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: had to be a joke
Riddle Sideways: something you said Tuesday
Riddle Sideways: did not hit until hours later
Riddle Sideways: "there will be soooo much Racism, that we will get sick of it"
Riddle Sideways: or something like that
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Riddle Sideways: well, hope we all got very sick of it and will stop mow
Adams Rubble: yes, please
Riddle Sideways: Now (not mowing)
Riddle Sideways: --Bell--
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: There will be so much mowing that we will get sick of it
Riddle Sideways: yes, so sick of Racism
Adams Rubble: yes, very sick of that
Riddle Sideways: want no more
Adams Rubble: Down by the Riverside
Adams Rubble: I must remember to copy text now
Riddle Sideways: ㋡

Memories

Adams Rubble: it has been nice meeting you here
Adams Rubble: it is interesting that we had a topic rather than memories
Riddle Sideways: it still looks different then the memories
Adams Rubble: yes, there are many pictures you can compare
Adams Rubble: the table makes a huge difference
Riddle Sideways: Doh! should have just talked of Memories
Adams Rubble: I think the cushions were arranged in a circle
Riddle Sideways: and not the song of Cats
Adams Rubble: and the seating postures are different
Adams Rubble: and usually had more avatars here
Adams Rubble: lions and birds
Riddle Sideways: adn Asarashahuha(that big av of few words) would sit in the corner on no cushion
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: and never say "I"
Riddle Sideways: funny habit ㋡
Adams Rubble: hard to do
Adams Rubble says "I" at least 3 times a sentence
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: was doing that too.  untilthe war on pronouns
Adams Rubble: there was a character in Treasure island who said Iover and over in a speech
Adams Rubble: over not lover :)))
Adams Rubble blushes
Riddle Sideways: back.  was looking in Friends list for that Avs name
Adams Rubble: even though this is l;arge, it maintains an intimacy
Adams Rubble: Avastu
Riddle Sideways: thanks
Adams Rubble: you're welcome
Adams Rubble: probably because it is on ground level
Riddle Sideways: is in SL sometimes still
Adams Rubble: so many old freinds
Riddle Sideways: it is larger then remembered
Riddle Sideways: ah Yes,  was just looking at all those names
Adams Rubble: maybe the circle was wider
Adams Rubble: it was
Adams Rubble: https://wiki.playasbeing.org/Chronicles/Chapter_06:_The_Rest_of_Summer/A._Month_of_July
Riddle Sideways: there is it.  Thanks
Adams Rubble: well, thank you very much for for today :)
Riddle Sideways: yes, was so nice
Riddle Sideways: now to go back to Great ...
Adams Rubble: when we left here for the last time many years ago, who knew we would be back so many years later
Riddle Sideways: da Shadow do
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: ok, off to bake the bread
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: by All